Technical Leadership Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 185 234
Rank change year-on-year +71 +49 -15
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 1,081 1,106 891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.72% 1.48% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.80% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 829 701 522
10th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £62,000 £55,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,600 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.62% -6.45% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +131 639 £70,600 +8.62% 140
North of England -19 176 £71,991 +10.64% 185
North West -24 115 £62,205 -11.86% 116
Wales +92 95 £70,600 +18.66% 15
Yorkshire +20 57 £78,750 +26.00% 51
South West -4 57 £67,500 +3.85% 81
Midlands -16 54 £75,000 - 93
West Midlands +9 44 £75,000 - 61
Scotland +40 28 £74,870 -0.17% 51
East of England -9 26 £71,500 +10.00% 59
East Midlands +11 10 £72,500 +3.57% 29
Northern Ireland +36 5 - - 20
North East +31 4 £72,250 -3.67% 22
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 23
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 10 (0.93%) Confluence
3 8 (0.74%) CMS
4 7 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.46%) Appian
5 5 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.37%) Apache
6 4 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.093%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.093%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 60 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.89%) Simulink
3 6 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.093%) BASE24
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.093%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 184 (17.02%) Azure
2 130 (12.03%) AWS
3 71 (6.57%) GCP
4 50 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (3.33%) Serverless
6 25 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 24 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (2.13%) SonarCloud
9 21 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 17 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.48%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.48%) Snowflake
12 14 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.30%) GitHub
12 14 (1.30%) SaaS
13 11 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.02%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.26%) WAN
2 37 (3.42%) Network Security
3 34 (3.15%) LAN
4 29 (2.68%) BGP
5 27 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 26 (2.41%) Firewall
6 26 (2.41%) VPN
7 24 (2.22%) Junos
8 22 (2.04%) MPLS
9 21 (1.94%) IPsec
10 19 (1.76%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (1.57%) DNS
12 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.93%) Modbus
13 10 (0.93%) MQTT
13 10 (0.93%) VLAN
14 8 (0.74%) 5G
14 8 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.74%) OSPF
15 6 (0.56%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.79%) NoSQL
2 33 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.85%) Big Data
8 18 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.30%) RDBMS
10 10 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.93%) Power BI
11 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.46%) MySQL
14 3 (0.28%) Redis
14 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.19%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 439 (40.61%) Rational DOORS
2 58 (5.37%) Git
3 34 (3.15%) JIRA
4 25 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
4 25 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 25 (2.31%) Visual Studio
5 23 (2.13%) MSBuild
6 22 (2.04%) Jenkins
7 18 (1.67%) GitLab
8 9 (0.83%) Selenium
9 8 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.46%) Snyk
12 4 (0.37%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.28%) Xcode
13 3 (0.28%) XCTest
13 3 (0.28%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 501 (46.35%) Electronics
2 260 (24.05%) Social Skills
3 152 (14.06%) Finance
4 74 (6.85%) Law
5 52 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (4.44%) Aerospace
7 45 (4.16%) Banking
8 36 (3.33%) Retail
9 29 (2.68%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.31%) Marketing
11 17 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.83%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.74%) Games
15 8 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.37%) Advertising
17 4 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 459 (42.46%) Systems Engineer
2 305 (28.21%) Senior
3 252 (23.31%) Principal Engineer
4 242 (22.39%) Lead
5 241 (22.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 217 (20.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 177 (16.37%) Architect
8 62 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
10 56 (5.18%) Team Leader
11 40 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
11 40 (3.70%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 38 (3.52%) Radar Engineer
13 35 (3.24%) Developer
13 35 (3.24%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.05%) Technical Leader
15 31 (2.87%) Network Architect
16 22 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
17 21 (1.94%) Salesforce Architect
17 21 (1.94%) System Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.40%) .NET
2 64 (5.92%) REST
3 46 (4.26%) Kafka
4 43 (3.98%) React
5 37 (3.42%) CSS
5 37 (3.42%) HTML
6 29 (2.68%) Node.js
7 28 (2.59%) SOAP
8 27 (2.50%) JSON
9 26 (2.41%) AngularJS
9 26 (2.41%) Bootstrap
10 25 (2.31%) XML
11 24 (2.22%) ASP.NET
11 24 (2.22%) Middleware
12 23 (2.13%) gRPC
13 21 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (1.39%) GraphQL
15 14 (1.30%) RESTful
16 13 (1.20%) .NET Core
16 13 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 484 (44.77%) Algorithms
2 57 (5.27%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.67%) IoT
7 16 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.39%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.93%) Clustering
11 10 (0.93%) Device Driver
12 9 (0.83%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.74%) Life Science
13 8 (0.74%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.74%) Self-Driving Car
14 7 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.98%) Windows
2 36 (3.33%) Linux
3 19 (1.76%) Unix
4 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) CentOS
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (50.32%) Systems Engineering
2 473 (43.76%) Signal Processing
3 310 (28.68%) Mentoring
4 265 (24.51%) Agile
5 240 (22.20%) Test Planning
6 163 (15.08%) Software Engineering
7 159 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (14.62%) DevOps
9 154 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 148 (13.69%) Microservices
11 132 (12.21%) CI/CD
12 102 (9.44%) Computer Science
13 99 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (8.23%) Coaching
15 84 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (7.59%) Analytics
16 82 (7.59%) Roadmaps
17 80 (7.40%) Architectural Design
18 76 (7.03%) Data Modelling
19 66 (6.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (10.92%) R
2 101 (9.34%) SQL
3 98 (9.07%) C#
4 87 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 77 (7.12%) Java
6 75 (6.94%) Python
7 37 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.31%) C++
9 23 (2.13%) C
10 21 (1.94%) Apex Code
11 11 (1.02%) Scala
12 10 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.83%) PHP
14 5 (0.46%) Bash
15 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.28%) Swift
17 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.19%) RPG
17 2 (0.19%) Tcl
17 2 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 551 (50.97%) BPSS Clearance
2 179 (16.56%) Degree
3 89 (8.23%) Security Cleared
4 72 (6.66%) SC Cleared
5 55 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.89%) Master's Degree
7 38 (3.52%) CCNP
7 38 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.15%) CCNA
9 27 (2.50%) JNCIS
10 25 (2.31%) Chartered Engineer
11 21 (1.94%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 17 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.93%) JNCIA
15 8 (0.74%) PhD
16 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.46%) CISSP
17 5 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (44.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 40 (3.70%) GDPR
3 30 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.68%) QA
5 17 (1.57%) SLA
6 9 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (0.74%) PMO
8 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 3 (0.28%) PMBOK
11 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.19%) COBIT
12 1 (0.093%) AUTOSAR
12 1 (0.093%) ECSS
12 1 (0.093%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.093%) MISRA
12 1 (0.093%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.093%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (5.92%) Docker
2 13 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.20%) Firmware
3 10 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) NFS
7 2 (0.19%) SRDF
7 2 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.19%) Xen
8 1 (0.093%) Snort
8 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (4.63%) Terraform
2 49 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.87%) Ansible
4 8 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.65%) Grafana
6 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.19%) WMI
9 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.093%) SCCM
9 1 (0.093%) SCOM
9 1 (0.093%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.093%) SCSM
9 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 460 (42.55%) IBM
2 116 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 40 (3.70%) MathWorks
4 39 (3.61%) Cisco
5 36 (3.33%) Google
6 26 (2.41%) Juniper
6 26 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.13%) SAP
8 21 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 20 (1.85%) Databricks
10 18 (1.67%) VMware
11 12 (1.11%) Oracle
12 8 (0.74%) Autodesk
13 6 (0.56%) Arista
13 6 (0.56%) Rockwell
13 6 (0.56%) Siemens
14 5 (0.46%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.46%) Black Duck
14 5 (0.46%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.46%) UiPath